The Trump administration has canceled law enforcement training for National Park Service rangers hired after January 27, according to a group that closely follows news affecting park rangers.

A decision by Padre Island National Seashore officials to close the seashore during a recent cold snap that stunned nearly 1,000 sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico, killing an unspecified number, has drawn concern from Sierra Club members in Texas and prompted a county commissioner to call for the seashore superintendent to be fired.

With a flurry of secretarial orders on his first day at work, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum stressed the Trump administration's desire to push for more energy development on federal lands while discarding the Biden administration's concerns for climate-change impacts and endangered species.

As dawn painted the Montana sky in hues of gold and amber, I sat in an inflatable raft on the Middle Fork of the Flathead River, gripping a fly rod for the first time. This wasn't just a fishing adventure—it became a journey of self-discovery.